Chin up

Wow I never knew there was so much negativity and misery involved. I can be cranky and depressed, but these things come and go. There's always nice food and nice things and fun stuff to do. Or books!

Labels: depression, life, squit

[ 16 August 2009 11:52 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Call Me Like Music

"My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored. But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow. And then look: you see the grain-fields down yonder? I do not eat bread. Wheat is of no use to me. The wheat fields have nothing to say to me. And that is sad. But you have hair that is the color of gold. Think how wonderful that will be when you have tamed me! The grain, which is also golden, will bring me back the thought of you. And I shall love to listen to the wind in the wheat ..."

The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.

(First collected ages ago on Malabar Hill, Bombay)

Labels: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, love, The Little Prince, wheat

[ 09 August 2009 11:09 am submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Erm, what?

Unrelenting indecision, isolation, confusion and anxiety about working, relationships and direction is reported by people in their mid-twenties to early thirties who are usually urban, middle class and well-educated; those who should be able to capitalize on their youth, unparalleled freedom and free-for-all individuation.

Labels: confusing prose, dense prose, Kate Carraway

[ 30 June 2009 6:31 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

A large part of my life

As soon as we started programming, we found out to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

(Here's a lovely description of how debugging works.)

Labels: 1949, debugging, Maurice Wilkes, Programming

[ 26 March 2009 9:11 pm submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Inclusion

We [Muslims] need to start having a more inclusive attitude. We need to be the change we would like to see in the world.

We are a piece of the greater puzzle of this world. We share it with other peoples, and other nations, with hopes and aspirations of their own. The Muslim today, as a pan-ethnic, pan-national identity, has much to be proud of. Our contributions to the world are many and lasting. We are intrinsically and inextricably part of the family of humanity, and though people like Mr. Wilders and others like him seek to dehumanize us as “the other,” belittle our grievances, and seek to exclude us from pursuing happiness like everyone else, we should know better.

Labels: hope, islam, we

[ 16 February 2009 1:35 am submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

Looking back on today

I don't think [Slashdot] will exist in 5-10 years. We can see that it is being torn asunder even now, as the weight of its users grows apace and the number of users exceeds 300k, 400k , 500k where will it stop? Also, there is a migration of the most intelligent users away to kuro5hin, which is a much more innovative weblog than /., and is a community rather than a mob.

Ultimately, I don't think Slashdot will exist in 5 years time for technological reasons. Eventually everyone will have huge bandwidth and something else will spring up to take /.'s place. I consider Slashdot to be a hiatus between Usenet and the next big thing.

Regarding Karma, I agree. It really doesn't matter a hoot, and 'Karma Whores' appear to be a thing of the past with the advent of the Karma Cap. However, it really would be better for /. if Karma were invisisble to the user, that way the pointless competitive aspect would not occur.

I just wish the people that harass me would get the message and go away. They really are annoying, and appear to have the wrong end of the stick.

Labels: history, slashdot, the past

[ 09 February 2009 1:29 am submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]

All in this ... together.

Wally Greenslade: [...] Neddie Seagoon arrived at the port of Guatemala, where he was accorded the typical Latin welcome to an Englishman.
Moriarty: Hands up, you pig swine pbbt.
Seagoon: Have a care, Latin devil. I'm an Englishman. Remember, this rolled umbrella has more uses than one.
Moriarty: Oooh!
Seagoon: Sorry ...
Moriarty: Sapristi bombit.
Seagoon: Now, now what's all this about?
Moriarty: It is the revolution, Señor — everywhere there is an armed rising.
Seagoon: Are you in it?
Moriarty: Right in it — you see, you see Señor, the united anti-socialist neo-democratic pro-fascist communist party is fighting to overthrow the unilateral democratic united partisan bellicose pacifist cobelligerent Tory labour liberal party.
Seagoon: Whose side are you on?
Moriarty: (Grandly) There are no sides ... we are all in this ... together.

Labels: Spike Milligan, The Goon Show

[ 21 January 2009 12:03 am submitted by Unknown | 0 comments | Post your own? ]